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dc.contributor.authorCuenca-Bescos, Gloria
dc.contributor.authorBlain, Hugues-Alexandre
dc.contributor.authorRofes, Juan
dc.contributor.authorLozano-Fernandez, Ivan
dc.contributor.authorManuel Lopez-Garcia, Juan
dc.contributor.authorDuval, Mathieu
dc.contributor.authorGalan, Julia
dc.contributor.authorNunez-Lahuerta, Carmen
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T01:17:32Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T01:17:32Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1040-6182
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.059
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/340132
dc.description.abstractNo ideal method can be used alone to provide an accurate and irrefutable chronology for dating European Early Pleistocene localities. The solution lies in the combination of different, but complementary, approaches for complementing their chronological framework. In that regard, the results of the present study show that biochronology may be a useful additional tool to further refine the chronology of these localities, by providing not only relative chronological information between the sites, but also giving some important indications about a younger or older Jaramillo age. Our study presents the revised faunal list of each Early Pleistocene levels from the localities of Gran Dolina (TD) and Sima del Elefante (TE), in Atapuerca. Both localities have very likely the richest associations of small mammal species in the Quaternary of Europe. Perhaps the most striking observation is the lack of similarities between the assemblages from each site, which can only be explained by a chronological gap between them. Although the Jaramillo subchron has not been directly identified at Atapuerca, the existing chronostratigraphical framework combined with similarities of the faunal assemblages between Gran Dolina and Vallparadís indicate with some confidence that Sima del Elefante levels are older than the Jaramillo subchron. Consequently, the Early Pleistocene levels of both Atapuerca sites TE and TD are the only sequence from Spain that allows the study of a continuous stratigraphic succession of the interval around the Jaramillo subchron in terrestrial sequences. The biostratigraphy of the Early Pleistocene from Europe, based mainly in the few isolated localities of the Olduvai–Jaramillo time interval, is reinforced by the faunal succession of the Atapuerca sites.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom148
dc.relation.ispartofpageto158
dc.relation.ispartofjournalQuaternary International
dc.relation.ispartofvolume389
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGeochronology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhysical geography and environmental geoscience
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArchaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3705
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode370502
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3709
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4301
dc.titleComparing two different Early Pleistocene microfaunal sequences from the caves of Atapuerca, Sima del Elefante and Gran Dolina (Spain): Biochronological implications and significance of the Jaramillo subchron
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDuval, Mathieu


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